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So the Chancellor is trying to use this moment of a tangible cut to every household's energy bill as a launching pad for a wider attempt to gee up consumer and business confidence.

From BBC ● Feb. 25, 2026

It’s an argument that Superman’s golly gee spirit is his greatest asset, no subversion necessary.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 7, 2026

"It was like they wanted to do something, but then really didn't put the effort into it and then said, gee, it didn't work," she told AFP.

From Barron's ● Jan. 31, 2026

“And then when the finance company says, ‘Oh, gee, sorry, we can’t actually get the loan on those terms, could you sign some worse terms?’

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 27, 2025

She applied Tan- gee Orange to her lips, combed her hair, and stuck down her cowlick with some of Jem’s Vitalis.

From "Go Set a Watchman: A Novel" by Harper Lee

"It's about finding out what makes people tick, what motivates them. "People such as Ian Botham were good when you geed them up.

From BBC ● Jun. 30, 2015

"It's great credit to the managers down there who have really responded to the threat of relegation and geed their teams up. It's going to be a grandstand finish."

From BBC ● May 9, 2015

A giant owl mascot geed up the crowd.

From Reuters ● Mar. 24, 2014

He said he doesn't know he does it, and said: 'That's just the way I play and I have to shout to get myself geed up for a game.'

From The Guardian ● Mar. 23, 2011

He lifted Everilda in, and said 'Gee up!' to his patent carriage, and the intelligent creature geed up right into the air and flew away.

From Oswald Bastable and Others by C. E. (Charles Edmund) Brock

Konstas was unruffled, smashing Bumrah for 18 in the next over and geeing up the crowd to keep up the noise, before reaching his fifty with two off Siraj.

From BBC ● Dec. 26, 2024

One of my favourite onscreen moments this year was AOC in her tiny New York apartment, geeing herself up before a debate in the Netflix documentary about her campaign.

From The Guardian ● Dec. 25, 2019

Eager to work on issues such as attention span, Williams turns guinea pig, submitting to magnetic brain stimulation to achieve better focus, geeing up creativity by means of electrodes over her prefrontal cortex, and more.

From Nature ● Jan. 24, 2017

The main value of celebrity campaigners is in geeing up the flagging activists who really get out the vote.

From Economist ● Apr. 23, 2015

There was a great deal of "geeing" and "hawing" and fuss, and then, instead of getting down, the farmer called out,— "Say, are you all asleep?"

From Memories A Record of Personal Experience and Adventure During Four Years of War by Fannie A. Beers